@mingchikuo:
Sources: the production of a cheaper version of Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027; Apple’s only new headset in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an M5 chip — As I understand it, production of the cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027 for a while now. This means Apple’s only new head-mounted display device in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an upgraded M5 processor. I think what really drove Apple to delay the cheaper
Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming device, the Pixelmator deal, Q4 earnings, and Peloton’s new CEO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming device, the Pixelmator deal, Q4 earnings, and Peloton’s new CEO — The new Mac mini could become Apple’s long-awaited answer to the PlayStation and Xbox. Also: The company’s next AI features …
An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics for US voters (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Financial Times)
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics for US voters — Former Microsoft boss seeks to build better democracy with data — Elon Musk has used his ownership of X to promote Donald Trump’s re-election as …
Experts say Tesla’s imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving systems needs AI breakthroughs that may not be achieved for some time (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Experts say Tesla’s imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving systems needs AI breakthroughs that may not be achieved for some time — Tesla is pushing to build true self-driving vehicles by 2026. The way its CEO wants to do it seems risky.
A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle (Politico)
Politico:
A single grant of $123M has been finalized from $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle — The $39 billion high-tech subsidy plan was supposed to come with guardrails. Progressives worry those are dissolving before their eyes.
Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B with a 17% operating margin, outpacing AWS’ 19% YoY revenue growth to $27.45B with a 38% operating margin (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Google Cloud Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B with a 17% operating margin, outpacing AWS’ 19% YoY revenue growth to $27.45B with a 38% operating margin — With Wall Street laser focused on cloud computing this week, Google outpaced its rivals in growth, a key sign for investors …
Spot AI, which helps companies analyze security camera footage, raised $31M and unveiled Video AI Agents that can detect and trigger responses to safety issues (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Spot AI, which helps companies analyze security camera footage, raised $31M and unveiled Video AI Agents that can detect and trigger responses to safety issues — Startup Spot AI Inc. has raised $31 million in fresh funding to help companies analyze footage from security cameras at their facilities.
Interviews with Amazon’s health chief Neil Lindsay and others on the company’s health care push, the PillPack and One Medical acquisitions, its future, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Interviews with Amazon’s health chief Neil Lindsay and others on the company’s health care push, the PillPack and One Medical acquisitions, its future, and more — Please don’t say the company is trying to fix healthcare. But it’s melding its pharmacy, in-person, and virtual services into something that feels, well, Amazonian.
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs (Devin Gordon/New York Times)
Devin Gordon / New York Times:
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs — The Los Angeles headquarters of Metaphysic, a Hollywood visual-effects start-up that uses artificial intelligence …
Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon buy nuclear power for AWS data centers in Pennsylvania over energy grid reliability and other concerns (Laila Kearney/Reuters)
Laila Kearney / Reuters:
Filing: US regulators rejected a proposal to let Amazon buy nuclear power for AWS data centers in Pennsylvania over energy grid reliability and other concerns — U.S. energy regulators rejected an amended interconnection agreement for an Amazon data center connected directly to a nuclear power plant …
